#forgetting

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#forgiveness #genius #forgiveness

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#forgetting #forgiveness #genius #gulley-jimson #heart-beats

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left. ↗

— Isobelle Carmody

#life #life

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#brink #forgetting #getting old #grave #keeps

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#long #love #love is #short

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. ↗

— Paul Nitze

#dangerous #error #forgetting #forms #human

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#about #around #blow #crippling #deformity

Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had finally dulled its edges, worn itself down. That same day Rachel couldn’t remember which side her father had parted his hair on, and she’d realized again what she’d learned at five when her mother left – that what made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting the small things first, the smell of the soap her mother had bathed with, the color of the dress she’d worn to church, then after a while the sound of her mother’s voice, the color of her hair. It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief that was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree’s heartwood. (51) ↗

— Ron Rash

#endure #forgetting #grief #memory #remembering

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#death #forget #forgetting #immortality #life

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#dreaming #dreamless #dreams #forgetting #sleep